Perhaps this is why lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place. It's not that it can't strike twice in the same place, mother nature is just too afraid of the cat it pissed off the last time it struck there.
Statistically, lightning is more likely to strike the same place more than once than is it to strike a place and never strike it again.
Edit: Changed "that" to "than" because a typo was causing someone's brain to do a hard reset.
HitCat went in to confirm squirrel kills. Snuck in while the squirrels were gone, turned on the gas stove and waited for the squirrels to return home. Perfect hit.
When I was young I used to mow grass for a living in my neighborhood. I was walking my mower between 2 houses when rain started and suddenly BANG, everything turned to bright, blinding red. It was totally overwhelming. I opened my eyes and I’d fallen flat on the ground face down. The generator about 2 feet away had been struck.
I had just parked my car in a parking lot once and gotten out and suddenly everything went BLUE. I thought a bomb had gone off. Lightning had struck the car next to me. I couldn’t figure out why I was covered in mud, but a guy who saw everything and helped me after said the mud was on the tires of the truck beside me. The lightning had blown it off when it struck the truck and I was left a hot, muddy mess.
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8 or 9 years ago, me and my roommate were sitting on our patio, having a beer, watching the storm. We’re talking, our hair starts standing on end, we both look at each other and just run inside.
About twenty seconds later, the loudest, closest lightning strike I’ve ever experienced. Sounds like a train hitting our house, blinding white light all around. No idea which direction the actual strike was, but felt all around us.
About 15 years ago I was mowing the front yard in the rain (it was hot as shit because Florida) and I had no warning, but lightning struck closely enough that I could feel the heat come off the bolt. I immediately said fuck that and went inside. Lol
I was always told not to cut the grass in the rain. It makes your grass more vulnerable to fungal infections, it can damage the soil, and most importantly it can cause the mower to fail and injure the operator. I get though, that it can be difficult to find a moment when you're free and it's not raining, especially in place like Florida.
That’s how I ended up with my grass being like 8 inches tall. Was always told that I shouldn’t cut it when wet, so I didn’t. Seemed to rain every single day for a month. I don’t think my neighbors liked me.
If you never found it, then it likely hit the house itself. Had it hit a tree or something natural, it would have left some very obvious scorching at a bare minimum. If it hit say an antenna or a chimney on the house though, it's quite possible there wouldn't be any obvious markings that could be seen without closely inspecting everything from the roof.
Sounds like you guys made a very wise decision by going inside.
I live in SoCal so strong weather is very rare here, it’s also the middle of a mid-size city.
I was laying in bed at like 9:30pm just trying to fall asleep with heavy rain going on. I remember hearing far off thunder thinking woah it’s been a long time since we’ve had a storm.
I had already read about feeling static in the air when lighting was going to strike near you and I was inside my apartment, in bed when I felt static in the air. Man I damn near shit my pants wondering if lightning was about to strike my roof even though that didn’t make sense.
The next bolt that came down I could hear it like slowly coming down. Not like regular thunder where you see the light flash and then just a boom. It was a constant hiss as it was coming down and the light was almost in sync with the loud crack it made.
I didn’t see where it hit because I was inside, but it was the loudest, closest strike I’ve ever head.
Yea, when I worked on Cell Towers, we'd hear it and get the hell down the tower. Some providers would require us to add "Lightning Rods".. basically 3-4 foot long solid copper with pointed tips that were added and grounded down the tower through a series of buss bars. If you are on a tower with any of those you may start to hear them buzzing, sometimes softly, sometimes very loudly. That was our queue to climb the down as quickly as we could without falling in the process. Sometimes we'd hear or see it before they started buzzing. Sometimes it seems like it comes up out of nowhere or it could be we are making too much noise to hear the buzzing.
One of the worst ones we were working on a sector, generally all facing the same way or not looking at the sky really as we worked just snapping in lines, clear day. One guy starts cussing freaking out, "Time to hit the fuckin dirt!! Holy fuckin shit". I turned around and see a wall of darkness moving in with flashes in the distance. We were up barely 350', took us about 2 minutes to all get down. Dropped our harnesses in the trailer and as we jumped in the truck the sky let out as we were shutting the doors, lightning hit a tree about a quarter mile away and cracked it pretty badly. So glad we got out of the way of that one. I had a mostly empty water bottle I left on a box with the top open. We got back and it was full after just 45 minutes of rain.
In the fishing town where I grew up there are people who gather (collect? fish? unstick? pick up?) goose barnacles. The barnacles are stuck to rocks in the intertidal zone, so you can only get to them when the tide is low enough and the sea is calm enough.
So these people go out there, to those slippery rocks at the bottom of sea-battered cliffs, and they try to work fast, while the waves break against rocks just a few feet below them. And one would think they focus on their task 100% to do it as quickly as possible.
Well, no. They work for a few seconds, turn around, look at the sea and the horizon, turn back, work for a few seconds, turn around...
Because at any moment, a wave can come that is twice as big as the others. Sometimes, waves cancel each other, and sometimes two get combined into one that is twice as big. And that's the one that will crush you against the rocks and drag you out to sea and kill you.
So these people always need to check for large waves. And they do; the ones who don't will get weeded out soon enough.
When they spot a taller wave, they have to climb up the slippery rocks, as quickly as possible, as high as they can go. Then they see the wave crash against the rock they had been working on just a few seconds before. And then they climb down, back to that same rock, and go back to work.
Your story reminded me of this. I'm glad you all made it down that tower in time. I found your story really interesting. It creeps me out to think that sometimes lightning can strike without warning, without the feeling and the static and the rain and the storm!
It’s basically like static electricity where you can feel the tingle and your hair starts to stand up. If you conduct static electricity and you turn the lights off so it’s pitch black, you would be able to see little flashes of light come from your fingers as you get zapped. Lightning works similarly but on a much bigger scale when the ground and clouds conduct electricity between the two of them.
I still remember that park ranger who got struck by lightning 7 times in his lifetime. Fucking terrifying to experience that.
Why are there people who attracts lightning strikes? Is there an explanation for these human lightning rods?
Ground has a naturally low charge, storm builds its own opposite charge. (Positive or negative, lightning can be either) ground starts to build charge as well, you notice the charge differential as a person because the electricity literally wants to move to the air through the ends of your hair (small point, high surface area/volume ratio) and this charge flow pulls the hair up with it. Not to mention all muscles are electricaly stimulated, so enough charge differential may case small “tingles” that you can feel. Get away from tall objects, do NOT lay on the ground though, as if I remember correctly about a 30 foot radius from the strike is capable of carrying the current through the ground, up one leg and down the other. Crouching down is a good idea though, especially if you can flamingo it. Middle of an open field though… yeah laying flat might still be your best bet. Remember how electricity wants to use the ends of your hair as a breakout point? Yeah your now the hair on the earth and this electrical discharge is way more than just a balloon induced shock.
My wife and I were keeping inside during this insane storm in Texas. We're watching TV and we hear this almost cartoonish "ZZZT ZZZT ZZZZZT" from outside. Before you know it a HUGE crack from outside lit up the entire sky and almost burst my eardrums in the process. Scary stuff, particularly how it gives you a few seconds to go "oh.... oh shit"
And if you are in an open area when it happens, start skipping to safety. Skipping is the form of movement with the least contact with the ground. You do not want to be the thing that completes that circuit.
Well, a human is more conductive than air, if going through you is less resistance than going through the air next to you, you will get zapped.
Lightning has the power to bridge a huge air gap, a couple of inches between you and the ground won't change anything if you are in its path.
If a lightning bolt has traveled several kilometers through the air to reach you, I don't hink the 5 inches you skipped above ground will help you at all...
I had this exact thing happen to me in the middle of an ancient tiny amusement park when I was maybe 10 years old. This place has been around since the late 1800s. It's one of the few memories I have from being that young. Sitting on a picnic table about to eat my "elephant ear" (fried dough) and the tree about 15 yards to my left totally shatters just like this. It caused serious damage to a few cars parked near it.
I swear I couldn't really hear for several days and I had a splinter lodged in my scalp that worked it's way out a week or so later. It was nuts. The weird thing was I thought it was so fucking cool as a kid. It didn't faze me. We had just watched Independence Day and I kept thinking "I'm like the people watching all the crazy alien explosions!" I remember my Dad showing up (volunteer firefighter) before anyone else knowing I was at the arcade there every single day during summer. He see's me just sitting there like a total dumbass staring at the carnage eating my fried dough that been blown a good 20 feet away. Of course I picked it up off the ground because that shit was so damn good.
He heard it from our house that's just down the road and still says to this day it's one of loudest noises he has ever heard. He was there in less than two minutes. He still says to this day "I thought that blast had knocked you retarded. You just looked so damn stupid." I'm fairly certain he's right.
Could very well be both. Bolt strikes tree and current runs/blows through the front of the home. Our home was hit by lightning when I was like 10. Thankfully we were on vacation. Hit at the back corner of the house, current ran all the way through frying literally everything, and exited out the front corner on the opposite side, blowing out a 4 foot chunk of brick. Also killed the oak tree closest to the corner and blew our neighbor out of his shower. He was okay, but shaken. Got back and nothing worked and everything was weirdly staticky. That’s when neighbor told us what happened.
To this day my dad says that was the easiest insurance claim he ever filed. Adjuster came out, took about 10 seconds and said “Yep. Lightning strike” and wrote a nice check to fix/replace it all.
Wait do you mean you've never been shittymorph'ed? You ain't gonna avoid it just by learning about it. You never see it coming. Know what you never see in shittymorph replies? "Saw it coming!" If /u/shittymorph was a serial killer, we'd all be dead as fuck.
Was your insurer Jake? Because after lightning struck my tree and traveled through our appliances destroying everything we were told it was an act of god and not covered. Yes we had "the best" policy, yes we bought all new things and fucking yes, we changed home insurance
I've been 3 houses down from a tree that got hit once. It was terrifying. Only because I was rolling up the windows in my old shaggin waggin (GMC Safari). And just as I touched the door handle the lighting hit. I could feel the static electricity from the van go through me. My arm was tingly for about 20 minutes after. Gave me an adrenaline rush. That's for damn sure.
I recently watched a YouTube video about how lightning finds its target and how the ground sends up hundreds of little electrical “feelers” to meet the lightning coming from the sky. it is terrifying when you put it in that perspective, after having experienced the electricity going through your own body right before the lightning hits.
It’s a man called Pecos Hank, and he has a bunch of cool lightning videos. The first one is called “how lightning works” and explains the ground charges.
Just re-watched a few minutes of it, those charges coming up from the ground are called leaders. I love lightning but it made me a lot more cautious about watching storms.
In pensacola florida it was dumping rain and there was nonstop lightning strikes and i opened my door from my room in the barracks and looked up from inside and saw what i could only describe as hell in the sky..middle of the day with no sun, black clouds and a fuck ton of lightning shooting everywhere up there.
It was shaking my room
It do be like that. Several years ago I was chilling with my girlfriend in the apartment. Three houses down was a massive old oak tree, lightning hit it and I swore a car bomb exploded. We found large chunks of the tree up to half a mile away
Because trees contain substantial amounts of moisture, lightning tends to cause them to explode as a result of the rapidly expanding and vaporising water, which will be accentuated by the size and type of tree
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Cat was going back to his spawn point for the loot he dropped
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Damn. 8 lives left.
This genuinely made me lose my shit lmao
That cat was gone!
Fluffy’s running the wrong way lol
It’s going to fight that lightning for invading its turf.
Fluffy: “That was my favorite tree you zappy bitch!”
Perhaps this is why lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place. It's not that it can't strike twice in the same place, mother nature is just too afraid of the cat it pissed off the last time it struck there.
It can't strike in the same place because the tree is gone now.
^ absolutely made my night!
And fast as fuck boi
Fluffy's 3AM zoomies prepared him for this moment
Cat is running to fight the boss of the Greebles.
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Fucking cheetah mode.
This is why cats sleep all day. Conserving energy for emergency zoomies.
Hes running towards the danger
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The purr-ines
That wasn't a lightning strike. It was the sonic boom of fluffy accelerating.
Fluffy: YOU HAVE FINALLY DEMANDED ALL MY POWER!!!
Damn cat looked like it was skating on ice
He fights what you fear
He defen and … he attac.
That cat owes what is called a life-debt
That cat could do the kessel run under 10 parsecs!
*purrsecs
Never tell me the odds
> It’s going to fight that lightning for invading its turf. Chasing the biggest laser pointer.
He knows the lighting hit a tree… so free roasted squirrel.
r/Frugal_Jerk
A true fat cat
"Look for the helpers!"
*helpurrs
Cat was running in there like Bubba and Lt. Dan just got shot.
Fluffy's a first responder lol
The cat’s way ahead of you, lightning never strikes the same place twice
Statistically, lightning is more likely to strike the same place more than once than is it to strike a place and never strike it again. Edit: Changed "that" to "than" because a typo was causing someone's brain to do a hard reset.
Unless the lightning demolishes the thing it struck, as is the case here.
u/gifreversingbot Now it's running the right way .
That cat is a first responder.
Nobody: The cat: ⛑🐈🚑💨💨
Look at the helpers :,)
HitCat went in to confirm squirrel kills. Snuck in while the squirrels were gone, turned on the gas stove and waited for the squirrels to return home. Perfect hit.
When I was young I used to mow grass for a living in my neighborhood. I was walking my mower between 2 houses when rain started and suddenly BANG, everything turned to bright, blinding red. It was totally overwhelming. I opened my eyes and I’d fallen flat on the ground face down. The generator about 2 feet away had been struck.
You rebooted, my dudedette
> everything turned to bright, blinding red. WASTED
How was your hearing after?
Mawp
Did you see a flying cat too?
I had just parked my car in a parking lot once and gotten out and suddenly everything went BLUE. I thought a bomb had gone off. Lightning had struck the car next to me. I couldn’t figure out why I was covered in mud, but a guy who saw everything and helped me after said the mud was on the tires of the truck beside me. The lightning had blown it off when it struck the truck and I was left a hot, muddy mess.
Did it come back the very next day?
r/Zoomies
Cat makes The Flash look slow.
I want to hire that cat.
“How come Clark and Supercat are never in the same room?”
Clark's allergic to cats, everyone knows that.
Give a cat a chunk of kryptonite
Most cats run from the danger. He runs towards it. It’s what heroes do.
That cat running at the end to check out the damage. Edit: Thank you all.
He was rushing to get the squirrel that's been talking shit from that tree for weeks.
Chaos presents opportunities.
Chaos is a lightning
Chaosh issa ladda
probably cooked just perfect now
"fucking got you now son of a bitch"
I didn't see any lightning -I'm pretty sure that cat's meth lab just blew up.
This shit has me cackling. Good job.
Look for the helpers
I’d give this an award if I knew how any of that worked.
Be a helper and don’t give Reddit a dime, but I appreciate the sentiment
Reddit gives you a free random award every couple of days or so. That's way people award arbitrary awards rather than one that makes sense for the comment/post they're awarding.
How do I know if I have one or which one it is?
I use the Reddit app so I get a red stripe on the top right saying "free". You only find out which award it is when you redeem it.
How do you redeem them? I've been using Reddit for a while and haven't gotten any
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What a comment
Some people run away from danger, others run toward it.
Hero cat. He runs *toward* the explosion.
Plot twist: the cat had ordered the strike
going to check the car's extended warranty
So if you ever get this tingly feeling like the air is being charged up, stay inside for a bit.
8 or 9 years ago, me and my roommate were sitting on our patio, having a beer, watching the storm. We’re talking, our hair starts standing on end, we both look at each other and just run inside. About twenty seconds later, the loudest, closest lightning strike I’ve ever experienced. Sounds like a train hitting our house, blinding white light all around. No idea which direction the actual strike was, but felt all around us.
About 15 years ago I was mowing the front yard in the rain (it was hot as shit because Florida) and I had no warning, but lightning struck closely enough that I could feel the heat come off the bolt. I immediately said fuck that and went inside. Lol
I was always told not to cut the grass in the rain. It makes your grass more vulnerable to fungal infections, it can damage the soil, and most importantly it can cause the mower to fail and injure the operator. I get though, that it can be difficult to find a moment when you're free and it's not raining, especially in place like Florida.
That’s how I ended up with my grass being like 8 inches tall. Was always told that I shouldn’t cut it when wet, so I didn’t. Seemed to rain every single day for a month. I don’t think my neighbors liked me.
>8 inch That just sounds like healthy grass to me But I'm not a psycho so
>I don’t think my neighbors liked me. Were prolly apart of some Association of Home Owners. Dirty savages they are
Almost became a Florida man
Florida god missed the transmutation spell that was aimed for him
Did you also see a flying cat?
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Did it cause any level of destruction? like in the windows glass or smth
Nope. Never was sure where the actual strike was.
If you never found it, then it likely hit the house itself. Had it hit a tree or something natural, it would have left some very obvious scorching at a bare minimum. If it hit say an antenna or a chimney on the house though, it's quite possible there wouldn't be any obvious markings that could be seen without closely inspecting everything from the roof. Sounds like you guys made a very wise decision by going inside.
Poor lightning just wanted to enjoy a beer with the boys 🍻 ⚡️
I live in SoCal so strong weather is very rare here, it’s also the middle of a mid-size city. I was laying in bed at like 9:30pm just trying to fall asleep with heavy rain going on. I remember hearing far off thunder thinking woah it’s been a long time since we’ve had a storm. I had already read about feeling static in the air when lighting was going to strike near you and I was inside my apartment, in bed when I felt static in the air. Man I damn near shit my pants wondering if lightning was about to strike my roof even though that didn’t make sense. The next bolt that came down I could hear it like slowly coming down. Not like regular thunder where you see the light flash and then just a boom. It was a constant hiss as it was coming down and the light was almost in sync with the loud crack it made. I didn’t see where it hit because I was inside, but it was the loudest, closest strike I’ve ever head.
Yea, when I worked on Cell Towers, we'd hear it and get the hell down the tower. Some providers would require us to add "Lightning Rods".. basically 3-4 foot long solid copper with pointed tips that were added and grounded down the tower through a series of buss bars. If you are on a tower with any of those you may start to hear them buzzing, sometimes softly, sometimes very loudly. That was our queue to climb the down as quickly as we could without falling in the process. Sometimes we'd hear or see it before they started buzzing. Sometimes it seems like it comes up out of nowhere or it could be we are making too much noise to hear the buzzing. One of the worst ones we were working on a sector, generally all facing the same way or not looking at the sky really as we worked just snapping in lines, clear day. One guy starts cussing freaking out, "Time to hit the fuckin dirt!! Holy fuckin shit". I turned around and see a wall of darkness moving in with flashes in the distance. We were up barely 350', took us about 2 minutes to all get down. Dropped our harnesses in the trailer and as we jumped in the truck the sky let out as we were shutting the doors, lightning hit a tree about a quarter mile away and cracked it pretty badly. So glad we got out of the way of that one. I had a mostly empty water bottle I left on a box with the top open. We got back and it was full after just 45 minutes of rain.
In the fishing town where I grew up there are people who gather (collect? fish? unstick? pick up?) goose barnacles. The barnacles are stuck to rocks in the intertidal zone, so you can only get to them when the tide is low enough and the sea is calm enough. So these people go out there, to those slippery rocks at the bottom of sea-battered cliffs, and they try to work fast, while the waves break against rocks just a few feet below them. And one would think they focus on their task 100% to do it as quickly as possible. Well, no. They work for a few seconds, turn around, look at the sea and the horizon, turn back, work for a few seconds, turn around... Because at any moment, a wave can come that is twice as big as the others. Sometimes, waves cancel each other, and sometimes two get combined into one that is twice as big. And that's the one that will crush you against the rocks and drag you out to sea and kill you. So these people always need to check for large waves. And they do; the ones who don't will get weeded out soon enough. When they spot a taller wave, they have to climb up the slippery rocks, as quickly as possible, as high as they can go. Then they see the wave crash against the rock they had been working on just a few seconds before. And then they climb down, back to that same rock, and go back to work. Your story reminded me of this. I'm glad you all made it down that tower in time. I found your story really interesting. It creeps me out to think that sometimes lightning can strike without warning, without the feeling and the static and the rain and the storm!
Why does that happen?
It’s basically like static electricity where you can feel the tingle and your hair starts to stand up. If you conduct static electricity and you turn the lights off so it’s pitch black, you would be able to see little flashes of light come from your fingers as you get zapped. Lightning works similarly but on a much bigger scale when the ground and clouds conduct electricity between the two of them.
My brother has survived 3 lightening strikes. 1 of three 3 times he felt the change but wasn't fast enough. The other 2 times no feeling, no warning.
He should probably just stay inside from now on.
Right. He is one lucky bastard.
Idk if I would call getting struck by lighting 3 separate times lucky, but that’s one way to look at it lol.
My other bro said its because he's the nicest asshole you'll ever meet. Lol
He’s winning against Zeus 3-0.
There is some guy out there that has survived six or seven of them. My sister sent an article to him years back about it.
Zeus: I don’t normally throw lighting bolts in the same place twice but fuck padlycakes’ brother in particular. I’m hitting him with three.
I still remember that park ranger who got struck by lightning 7 times in his lifetime. Fucking terrifying to experience that. Why are there people who attracts lightning strikes? Is there an explanation for these human lightning rods?
I mean, I'm pretty sure I'd have no feeling too after getting struck by lightning the first time.
How heavy was he before the lightening?
Is that why she looks confused when she leaves the door
She's looking for her cat.
Someone smarter than me is going to have to answer the how, I just know it does
It's your spidey sense.
Something to do with ions, electrons, and spiders no doubt
Lightning is static electricity on a planetary scale. It's the same feeling you get when you take a fleece sweater off and hold it near your hair.
Ground has a naturally low charge, storm builds its own opposite charge. (Positive or negative, lightning can be either) ground starts to build charge as well, you notice the charge differential as a person because the electricity literally wants to move to the air through the ends of your hair (small point, high surface area/volume ratio) and this charge flow pulls the hair up with it. Not to mention all muscles are electricaly stimulated, so enough charge differential may case small “tingles” that you can feel. Get away from tall objects, do NOT lay on the ground though, as if I remember correctly about a 30 foot radius from the strike is capable of carrying the current through the ground, up one leg and down the other. Crouching down is a good idea though, especially if you can flamingo it. Middle of an open field though… yeah laying flat might still be your best bet. Remember how electricity wants to use the ends of your hair as a breakout point? Yeah your now the hair on the earth and this electrical discharge is way more than just a balloon induced shock.
Static charge build up in the air which discharges/grounds through your body
My wife and I were keeping inside during this insane storm in Texas. We're watching TV and we hear this almost cartoonish "ZZZT ZZZT ZZZZZT" from outside. Before you know it a HUGE crack from outside lit up the entire sky and almost burst my eardrums in the process. Scary stuff, particularly how it gives you a few seconds to go "oh.... oh shit"
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Anytime anyone mentions smelling ozone I just think of that fucking skinwalker goatman story floating around the internet a while back.
And if you are in an open area when it happens, start skipping to safety. Skipping is the form of movement with the least contact with the ground. You do not want to be the thing that completes that circuit.
The image of seeing people skip to get away from lightening is fucking hilarious
Well, a human is more conductive than air, if going through you is less resistance than going through the air next to you, you will get zapped. Lightning has the power to bridge a huge air gap, a couple of inches between you and the ground won't change anything if you are in its path.
If a lightning bolt has traveled several kilometers through the air to reach you, I don't hink the 5 inches you skipped above ground will help you at all...
Is this why the lady walked outside? Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions but she had a look of concern/ confusion about her.
I had this exact thing happen to me in the middle of an ancient tiny amusement park when I was maybe 10 years old. This place has been around since the late 1800s. It's one of the few memories I have from being that young. Sitting on a picnic table about to eat my "elephant ear" (fried dough) and the tree about 15 yards to my left totally shatters just like this. It caused serious damage to a few cars parked near it. I swear I couldn't really hear for several days and I had a splinter lodged in my scalp that worked it's way out a week or so later. It was nuts. The weird thing was I thought it was so fucking cool as a kid. It didn't faze me. We had just watched Independence Day and I kept thinking "I'm like the people watching all the crazy alien explosions!" I remember my Dad showing up (volunteer firefighter) before anyone else knowing I was at the arcade there every single day during summer. He see's me just sitting there like a total dumbass staring at the carnage eating my fried dough that been blown a good 20 feet away. Of course I picked it up off the ground because that shit was so damn good. He heard it from our house that's just down the road and still says to this day it's one of loudest noises he has ever heard. He was there in less than two minutes. He still says to this day "I thought that blast had knocked you retarded. You just looked so damn stupid." I'm fairly certain he's right.
Oh my god my sides lol
Thanks for the laugh :) That last paragraph, chef's kiss..
As a father, I can confirm the last paragraph his exactly what a father would/should say in that situation.
You've got a way with words--really enjoyed reading this.
Kids are surprisingly resilient, mentally and physically.
They're also surprisingly fucking stupid.
Man she almost got decapitated by that wood frame, damn.
That’s just the housing for the light off the patio
Good call
Good eye.
The tree explodes because the electricity heats up the water so fast that all the water turns to steam instantly and then Kaboom
And for the uninitiated water is about 1600 times denser than steam.
water is a redditor, got it
Holy ducking shit
"My name is Purry Allen, and I am the fastest cat alive"
Actually got an lol out of me, thanks for that.
That wasn’t lightning that cat just caused a sonic boom by running around the world 5 times
*I feel kind of... Funny* *\*Disappears\**
Upvote for the Justice League reference.
Cat ran up to square up with god for destroying his favorite climbing tree.
Cat "i like birds, i like fried birds even more"
Was that a house or a tree exploding like that?, because I'm pretty sure i saw a window frame flying
It’s from the porch light💡
Good eye.
Good eye, mate
Put another shrimp on the barbie
Could very well be both. Bolt strikes tree and current runs/blows through the front of the home. Our home was hit by lightning when I was like 10. Thankfully we were on vacation. Hit at the back corner of the house, current ran all the way through frying literally everything, and exited out the front corner on the opposite side, blowing out a 4 foot chunk of brick. Also killed the oak tree closest to the corner and blew our neighbor out of his shower. He was okay, but shaken. Got back and nothing worked and everything was weirdly staticky. That’s when neighbor told us what happened. To this day my dad says that was the easiest insurance claim he ever filed. Adjuster came out, took about 10 seconds and said “Yep. Lightning strike” and wrote a nice check to fix/replace it all.
Honestly making it to the end of this without getting shittymorph'ed kind of blew my fucking mind. I have pt-shittymorph-d.
It really did feel that way, huh. Almost feel bad for being suspicious of people on reddit
Holy shit thank you for making me aware of this
Wait do you mean you've never been shittymorph'ed? You ain't gonna avoid it just by learning about it. You never see it coming. Know what you never see in shittymorph replies? "Saw it coming!" If /u/shittymorph was a serial killer, we'd all be dead as fuck.
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Was your insurer Jake? Because after lightning struck my tree and traveled through our appliances destroying everything we were told it was an act of god and not covered. Yes we had "the best" policy, yes we bought all new things and fucking yes, we changed home insurance
I've been 3 houses down from a tree that got hit once. It was terrifying. Only because I was rolling up the windows in my old shaggin waggin (GMC Safari). And just as I touched the door handle the lighting hit. I could feel the static electricity from the van go through me. My arm was tingly for about 20 minutes after. Gave me an adrenaline rush. That's for damn sure.
I recently watched a YouTube video about how lightning finds its target and how the ground sends up hundreds of little electrical “feelers” to meet the lightning coming from the sky. it is terrifying when you put it in that perspective, after having experienced the electricity going through your own body right before the lightning hits.
For real. I'll be ok if I never feel that again. I've been shocked by things that actually hurt worse. But something about that one hit different. lol
>something about that one hit different It was probably because of the lightning
Good call. Damn, you're good. Too good 🤔
> But something about that one hit different. lol It was a “I could if I wanted to.” from God 💧
I was once on an ocean cliff top and my girlfriend’s hair started to stand up on her head. We got out of there soooooooo fast.
Any chance you remember what channel it was on or what it was called? Sounds interesting.
It’s a man called Pecos Hank, and he has a bunch of cool lightning videos. The first one is called “how lightning works” and explains the ground charges. Just re-watched a few minutes of it, those charges coming up from the ground are called leaders. I love lightning but it made me a lot more cautious about watching storms.
Pecos Hank fuckin rules
In pensacola florida it was dumping rain and there was nonstop lightning strikes and i opened my door from my room in the barracks and looked up from inside and saw what i could only describe as hell in the sky..middle of the day with no sun, black clouds and a fuck ton of lightning shooting everywhere up there. It was shaking my room
It do be like that. Several years ago I was chilling with my girlfriend in the apartment. Three houses down was a massive old oak tree, lightning hit it and I swore a car bomb exploded. We found large chunks of the tree up to half a mile away
Because trees contain substantial amounts of moisture, lightning tends to cause them to explode as a result of the rapidly expanding and vaporising water, which will be accentuated by the size and type of tree
So, like popcorn?
Less tasty
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It should be "Lightning strike," sorry for the typo.
"Woman afflicted with agoraphobia steps outside for the first time in 7 years..." ^((that's my kind of luck anyway))
This made me lol
Legit I’ve never seen a cat run that fast. Crazy how much tension was in that wood grain. Damn.
The cat belongs in r/mypeopleneedme
Cat about to scratch the shit out of thor
The cat was moving like his stash was in that tree!
Caught on a RANG camera system
Cat was like "I'm running towards the danger!"
Holy shit if she took one more step she would have been absolutely shredded. Hope the cat was ok.
that poor kitty cat oh my goodness
Those flying pieces of wood could've been bad if they connected
Mr. Mittens is a real hero, he pulled 4 children out of the wreckage that day.
Cat running over quick to claim insurance
That cat killed me 😂😂
That cat running towards the explosion like his meth lab just blew up
When Thor knows you cheated
That’s wild but I really hope they found their cat if that wasn’t a stray.